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Rife, Martine Courant; Conner, Christine – New Directions for Higher Education, 2017
Offered as a case study, this chapter shows how Lansing Community College intentionally combined efforts to redesign eight high-risk courses with efforts to create clearer guided curricular pathways for the college's students.
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design, At Risk Students
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
Many graduate students lack the capacity for self-authorship, the ability to develop one's own perspective. Data from a longitudinal study of sixteen students, begun in their first year of college, illustrates the difficulty of moving from embracing multiple perspectives to constructing self-authored perspectives. The stories of three graduate…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Read, Joel – New Directions for Higher Education, 1980
This field report from a Catholic liberal arts college for women suggests that, in any environment, a holistic approach to moral development is possible by challenging students to integrate their knowledge with their actions and to deal with inherent values issues both in and out of the curriculum. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum, College Environment